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Design Education CIC CPD Programme

Continuing our 2014-15 series of two-part twilight CPD programmes

for teachers in London who are looking for inspiration

and to share their practice

ARCHITECTURE in the classroom

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Workbook #1 Part 1—Inspirational schemes of work Part 2—Teaching other subjects through architecture Part 3—Signposting

Students at the end of one of our Design Camp architecture workshops, parading their personal monuments around the Albert Memorial.

Examples of schemes of work

Rebuilding community in Japan post tsunamiWhat does it mean to create a home?

Year 4Key stage 2Rokesley Primary School, LondonHalf a term: 6 workshops, one half day / weekAn international exchange between Tohoku, Japan and London, UK

Lessons:1. Site investigation2. Site survey (measuring and drawing a plan)3. Drawing a propsal for a community building4. 5. Model making workshops to build the community buildings6. Bringing together the whole community in a large site model

This Is Our East 20Mapping the Olympic Park for young people by young people

Year 8Key Stage 3 Geography & ComputingChobham Academy, LondonFull term: 6 half day workshops, one every other weekUsing GIS mapping and 3D viewfinder installations to show the young people’s unique take on their local park

Lessons:1. Exploring the Olympic Park with GIS mapping technology (or simply recording on maps)2. Making viewfinders on site to show the students’ perspectives on the park3. Doing a sensory walk in the park & recording observations4. Making a stop gap animation to show the park being used in different ways5. Learning how to use GIS technology6. Creating a map of the park for young people by young people

Building Bridges

Design a bridge using only 12 paper straws / 20 sheets of newspaper that bridges a 250mm gap and can hold as much weight as possible

Year 7/8Key Stage 3One 3 hour workshopUCL outreach day: engineering

Design: Engineer: ConstructDesigning a community eco-classroom within your school grounds, utilising team work

Year 9Key stage 3Graveney School1 full day workshop

Students were divided into different role eg Architect, Brand Manager, Surveyor, Landscape Designer and challenged to design an eco-classroom in the grounds of their school, to be used by the whole community.

Re imagining Our NeighbourhoodIf we were in charge...

The Phoenix School (SEN students)Year 6 (with whole school for the day of the Arts Festival)Art and DesignTopic focus: Autumn

Lessons:1. Exploring a local park with acetate-filled viewfinders on which to draw ideas, and boxes with which to create towers and rooms of different sizes2. Collaborative drawing of ideas for the park using powder ink dye on canvas3. Building 3D versions of the ideas using recycled materials. Students chose whether their model was underground (hanging below the suspended canvas), on the ground or halfway in-between

Forgotten SpacesPropose a new use for a forgotten space in your community

Oaks Park High School, RedbridgeYear 10 Art and DesignHalf a term, 6 one hour workshops, one / weekExamples of outputs: public toilets to a barbers; institutional building to a library; disused row of shops to a mixed-use, multimedia community centre

Architecture for Humanity

Uncovering the narrative of a local person / group and proposing how design (at a variety of scales, be that a product or building) can bring positive change

St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College, ClaphamYear 12 Art and Design6 one hour workshops over half a termHow can good design foster hope?

Art Lenses and Archi-FramesCreate a viewing device to suggest a way to see different sculptures in the City of London

Cayley Primary School, Haggerston School, Hackney City Academy and St Pauls Way Trust SchoolKeys Stages 2, 3 and 44 workshop structure: exploring the area from below; exploring the area from above (if possible to gain access to a high building or viewpoint); drawing an individual viewpoint on an acetate viewfinder; slotting the viewfinders together to create a multiple-viewpoint device.

Open-City Architecture in SchoolsChallenging young people to ‘design a...’ following a structure of: inspiring site visit, drawn intial ideas, quick exploratory model makng and creating the final design in 3D.

Schools across LondonKey Stage 2 and 3Half a term, 4 to 6 one hour workshopsIn collaboration with architects

1. Visiting an exciting building, measuring space, exploring materials and understanding structure

2. Designing in 2D

3. Exploring space in 3D using quick model making techniques with card, scissors and tape or glue.

4. Creating the final design

Building PlayhousesLatymer Activities WeekYear 10, Key Stage 4

Personal MounmentsDesign Camp, 2010Years 7-9, Key Stage 36 workshops, starting small scale, and getting bigger

Colour the SchoolBurlington Danes, Design Camp, 2010Years 7-9, Key Stage 31 full day workshophttp://www.designcamp.org.uk/2010/video.php

IKEA-villeDesign Camp, 201iYears 7-9, Key Stage 3

GeodesicsUsing roll tubes abd plastic rivetsDesign ClubYears 7-9, Key Stage 31 lesson

Castaway IslandDesiging a shelter, imagining being a castawayDesign ClubYears 7-9, Key Stage 31 lesson

Designing a new school playgroundRapid paper modelling, folded by quick peer-to-peer critsDesign ClubYears 7-9, Key Stage 31 lesson

Part 2: TEACHING OTHER SUBJECTS THOUGH ARCHITECTURE

LITERACYSubject areas: Understanding alternative viewpoints; sharing and listening; visualising the past and projecting the future; negotiating; developing effective communication skills

Potential outputs:

Poem based on being a building as it goes through a renovation / change of use

Marketing for a new development / part of town

Newspaper article

Role play / drama sketch / film: eg the protagonists of a new city quarter in a planning debate

Drawing or modelling a building from a book the class are studying

NUMERACYSubject areas: Recognising symmetry; understadning geometry; reading scales; generating algorithms; calculating area & volume; recognising and describing 2D and 3D shapes - including making nets; describing space; using measures; measuring and drawing acute and obtuse angles.

Teachers are encouraged to embed these experiences in practical contexts and activites so that children can develop an understanding of the kinds of situations where proportional thinking is applicable.

Potential outputs:

Geodesic domes

3D geometrical form

2D kaleidoscopic / symmetrical design

Origami

Algorithmic design

Calculating volumes and areas of spaces within the school

SCIENCE

STRUCTURES AND FORCES (PHYSICS)How buildings and structures transfer force in order to stand upOutputs:Building a strong structureBuilding a bridge

LIGHT (PHYSICS)Naturally and artificially lighting a building or placeOutputs:Creating the filters for different light sources and measuring light allowed through by the filter/shade (comparison to building louvres, tinted glass, double-glazing) http://sustainabilityworkshop.autodesk.com/buildings/measuring-light-levels

BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS (BIOLOGY)How buildings function in the same way to respond to various phenomena eg convection cur-rents, solar radiationOutputs:Making building skins to insulate test-tubes and measuring heat loss

HISTORYSubject areas: Architecture can bring history to life – a physical manifestation of social historyIt has also been described as an instigator / controlling force, in effect bringing about, accelerating or restricting change.

Potential outputs:

Analytical annotations: Looking for clues in a building (plan, section and elevation) to tell us about the social history of the place and timeeg. Who has power, who serves and is served, what were the aspirations of the people?

Provocative pondering:How did / does the buildings impact on society, who does it bring together, who does it segre-gate, what does it promote / represent?

GEOGRAPHYSubject areas: Identifying and describing what places are like; recognising and explaining patterns made by individual physical and human features in the environment; drawing maps and plans at a variety of scales; understanding how cities are made; recognising how places fit within a wider geographical context; migration of people and its effect on physical and social geography; understanding how people can improve the environment or damage it; learning how decisions about places and environments affect the future quality of people’s lives; recognising how and why people may seek to manage environemnts sustainably

Potential outputs:

Analogue mapping via qualitative and quantitative observations

GIS mapping

Plannig a new eco-town, thinking about transport to and from home and work (can these be combined?) and cycles of production and reuse

COMPUTINGSubject areas: designing programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; using logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work; selecting, using and combining a variety of software on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information

Potential outputs:

3D printing a building by modelling it digitally (sketch up or rhino)

Laser-cutting a landscape by drawing it digitally (CAD)

Laser-cutting components which fit together to make a building by drawing them digitally (CAD)

Stop-frame animations

Films

DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY AND ART & DESIGNSubject areas: Architecture can form the main brief or scheme of work for both these topics and meet ALL learning outcomes.

Potential outputs:

Limitless!

Part 3: SIGNPOSTING

Model making

A Basic Guide to Modelmaking; Martha Sutherland; 1999, Norton

Designing with Models; Criss B Mills; 2000, Wiley

Pop-Up! A Manual of Paper Mechanisms; Duncan Birmingham; 1997, Tarquin

The Elements of Pop-up; David Carter and James Diaz; 1999, Simon & Schuster

Algorithmic Designhttp://code.algorithmicdesign.net (includes the codes needed to make them)

Making nearly anything!http://www.instructables.com

Housebuilding for Children – six different houses that children can build by themselves; Les Walker; 1979 (UK metric edition; Architectural Press), 2007 (US imperial edition; The Overlook Press)

Kids Build!http://kidsbuild.org/

Jude Pullen – an obsessively detailed series of videos about card modellinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E6UbAs2sCs

Paper Toys (free cutouts of various famous buildings)http://www.papertoys.com/

Pretzschendorf Primary School – curiously sinister collection of paper buildings – don’t play the video!http://www.grundschule-pretzschendorf.de/en/Our_village/paper_models.html

Canon – lots of paper buildings with full colour planshttp://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/2025/list_15_1.html

Sustainability

My Green SchoolKey Stage Two lesson plans teaching sustainability through English, Maths, Art, Science and Geography (Open-City)http://open-city.org.uk/education/schools/MyGreenSchool.html

Sustainabilityhttp://sustainabilityworkshop.autodesk.com/building-design/concepts

Architectural lesson plans

Shaping Places; Kent Architecture Centre and Solent Centre for Architecture and Design; 2003-2005

Art and the Built Environment: A Teacher’s Approach; Eileen Adams & Colin Ward; Longman, 1982

Space Place, Eileen Adams The Lighthouse, Glasgow; 2000

Schoolyards to SkylinesA paid-for pdf document with ideas for KS1 and 2 (Chicago Foundation)http://www.architecture.org/page.aspx?pid=551

About.com -Top 10 Free Lesson Plans & Activitieshttp://architecture.about.com/od/teachersaids/tp/lessonplans.htm

Times Educational Supplement http://www.tes.co.uk/ (but you will need to register to download the resources)

London Grid for Learning: Open-City film resource of educational tours of buildings with architectshttp://www.lgfl.net/curriculum-resources/Pages/Open-City.aspx

Building information

E-architectHigh quality images of buildings, listed by place and typologyhttp://www.e-architect.co.uk/world-buildings

The Architecture Pack; Ron van der Meer & Deyan Sudjic; 1997, Van der Meer Publishing

The V&A and RIBA Collectionshttp://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/vam-riba-collections/

Architecture organisations and opportunitiesOpen CityAn architecture education charity - competitions and lesson planshttp://open-city.org.uk/education/index.html

Learning by Design in Massachusettshttp://www.lbdma.org/

The National Building Museum (US)http://www.nbm.org/families-kids/

The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.buildingexploratory.org.uk